GRADE 10- READING SKILLS

scanning or skimming? A student looks through a restaurant menu to find the price of a hamburger.

What is scanning?

You are looking for a date/ a place/ a person’s name. You need to scan/ skim?

A student quickly reads the first sentence of each paragraph in an article to find out what the article is about.

scanning or skimming? 4️⃣ A student searches a train timetable to find the time of the next train to London.

What is skimming?

Scanning or skimming? A student quickly reads the first sentence of each paragraph in an article to find out what the article is about.

scanning or skimming? A student reads the headlines of news stories on a website to see which one they want to read in detail.